founders are always asking, you know, sholl we be focused on growth or focus on fund raising? And the answer is kind of yes. For me it was, forget that you have a forty hour workday. You need to make more time for it. In my opinion, i think dion and i are a sort of representative of how fund raising is binary. There there isn't a way to raise capital. There is just do or do not. Is no try, you know. I would strongly encourage to do one or the other as opposed to doing both at the same time. It actually doesn't really matter, so long as you raise or cover your costs. But doing
Two startup CEOs share their approach to fundraising, Andrew Farah explains the strategy he used to raise $100M for Density (03:58), Dejan simplifies his community-forming principles for SoleSavy (38:27), and both give tactical lessons from the mistakes they made along the way (46:23)! Deck: https://bit.ly/3b8gz8g